You might say, to paraphrase the baseball adage, “Take me out to the Shakespeare.”

The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival (PSF), which is in the midst of its 2023 season, returns to an outdoor stage for an updated revival of the three-person comedy “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again].”

The show will be presented June 28 through July 16 on a new outdoor stage in front of the Trexler Library at DeSales University.

Director Matt Pfeiffer wanted to bring The Bard outdoors after directing “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in 2021 on an outdoor stage at PSF.

Pfeiffer says the open-air environment “lends itself to feeling more spontaneous.

“The experience we had with ‘Midsummer’ was so celebratory and free,” Pfeiffer continues.

“When ‘Complete Works’ was originally made, it was often done outside. There is a looseness and adaptability to this at its core, so there is some connective tissue to the roots of the piece as an outdoor performance or a street performance.”

The cast is Sean Close, Eli Lynn and Sabrina Lynne Sawyer, who will take on Shakespeare’s entire canon in 99 minutes.

Close, last seen at PSF as Don John in “Much Ado About Nothing,” performs regionally with 1812 Productions, Theatre Horizon, Arden Theatre Company, Quintessence Theatre Group and Delaware Theatre Company.

Lynn, a certified Intimacy Director, including at PSF this summer, is a Barrymore-nominated Fight Director whose regional credits include 1812 Productions, American Shakespeare Center, Cleveland Playhouse and Folger Theatre, and is Artistic Associate for Philadelphia Artists’ Collective.

Sawyer was recently in several productions at Folger Theatre and National Tours of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and “A Raisin in the Sun.”

“The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged),” written by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield, has been performed for more than 30 years as a raucous revue of the Shakespearean canon.

Originally developed by American comedy troupe, The Reduced Shakespeare Company, “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” was staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1987 and went on to run for a record-setting nine years in London’s West End.

Since its debut, the show has been performed all over the world and has been twice revised. The PSF production has revisions by Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield.

“It is a fun take-down of pretentiousness and self-seriousness, but it’s also a love letter to the poetic, and pretentious, world of Shakespeare,” Pfeiffer says.

“If you love Shakespeare, you’ll find this incredibly rewarding. And if you’ve never understood Shakespeare, this might be your best shot,” says Pfeiffer.

The production’s creative team includes Costume Designer Rebecca Callan, Sound Designer David M. Greenberg and Set Designer Joshua Rose.

There will be an opening night post-show champagne toast with the company June 30, a talk-back with the actors after July 6 and July 13 performances and an audio-described and American Sign Language performance at the 2 p.m. July 15 performance.

“The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again],” 6:30 p.m. June 28 - 30, July 1, 5 - 7, 11 - 14; 2, 6:30 p.m. July 2, 8, 9, 15; 2 p.m. July 16. Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Trexler Library Stage, Labuda Center for the Performing Arts, DeSales University, 2755 Station Avenue. Center Valley. Tickets: 610-282-9455, http://pashakespeare.org

Just “Peach”-y At PSF:

The Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival is gearing up for its first children’s show of the summer with “James and the Giant Peach,” July 7 to Aug. 5 in the Schubert Theatre.

James (Abagaile Ruger) and his super-sized bug pals are in a gigantic traveling peach in the adaptation of Roald Dahl’s children’s story.

The PSF production has the return of carpet seating for children to have stage-side views. There are meet-the-actors photos and autographs available after performances.

The show, directed by Jenna Place, includes Sydney Abbott, Patrick M. Byrnes, Megan Castellane, CaSandra Kay Danubio, Alaina Hurley, Iyanu Joshuasville, Nicole Lawrie, Gabrielle Moseley, Christian Tuffy and Moriah Faith Wilt.

There will be a relaxed performance July 15 and an audio-described and American Sign Language interpreted performance July 22.

“James and the Giant Peach,” 10 a.m. Tuesday through Thursday, July 7 to Aug. 5; Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Schubert Theatre, Labuda Center for the Performing Arts, DeSales University, 2755 Station Avenue, Center Valley. Tickets: 610-282-9455, http://shakespeare.org

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